Yesterday we were joking about this girl’s “little black soul filled with fire”. That’s what inspired these pictures.
Rapunzel, aptly named, is a 13.2hh (current height, string tests to a whopping 13.3hh) 3yo Mustang mare, facility born to a Stewart Creek WY mare.
She looks like a tiny, colorful Andalusian and has enough personality to fill a body three times her size. She is smart, friendly and just spunky enough to remind you she’s a pony.
Those are the moments when I call her Toad. Thankfully even at her most toad-like, Rapunzel is still very manageable and quite entertaining. Correcting squirrelly green horse behavior is usually accompanied by some grunt/grumble/laugh because she’s such a ham.
She loves – and demands – attention, has guilted Tay Martin who doesn’t do ponies, especially not colorful ones, into loving her and has a rather captivating presence for something so small.
She enjoys being brushed, fussed over, worked with, taken out of her pen for adventures of any sort. Because it’s currently either winter or mud season up here, depending on the (time of) day, Rapunzel is still sporting some winter fluff and residual mud on her otherwise white legs. This too shall pass. Hopefully. At some point.
Rapunzel is big enough for a small adult or a handy youngster. She is young and needs guidance. She’s nowhere near being a kid’s pony in the sense of babysitting the grandkids and far too nice of a horse to be a pet.
We’re looking for an adopter who appreciates a (sometimes) spicy, always curious pony, and wants a colorful partner to explore the world with, ideally also outside of the arena.
She’s built really nicely and would do well and make you look good in English, Western or driving disciplines as well as on the trail. She has the energy and athleticism needed to do whatever is needed, without being hot.
She comes knowing all the basics. She’s easy to catch (as in, meets you at the gate), leads, lunges, sends, crosses obstacles including tarps and small jumps, ties, picks up her feet and loads. We’ll pony, saddle and bridle her too while she’s here. That way she’ll be ready for her human to take over and have a fun summer together.
Rapunzel is available for adoption through Wild Horse Outreach & Advocacy , located in Guffey, CO. You can find our adoption application as well as other adoptable Mustangs on w i l d h o r s e o u t r e a c h . o r g . The form is fillable and submittable online. For questions, please PM or email us.
Our goal is to find suitable homes for each of the wildies in our care, so that both Mustang and adopter are happy and headed towards a successful, safe partnership.
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Training halter: Rowdy’s Ropes
Braiding and brushing: Taylor
